FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

Our Troops Rock!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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~ Tunes For Our Troops ~

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Tunes For The Troops     **Artist Showcase** Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Gilda Mirsky Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro. Laura was of Russian Jewish and Italian ancestry. As a child, she taught herself piano, read poetry, and listened to her mother's records by Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday and classical composers such as Ravel and Debussy. She composed her first songs at age eight. With her family, she spent summers in the Catskill Mountains, where her father played the trumpet at resorts. While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth." Among her favorite musicians were John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Curtis Mayfield, Van Morrison, and girl groups such as The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Shirelles. Nyro's own renditions of her songs never attained hit status, but between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had achieved significant successes on the charts with her works. Other artists scored hit after hit with her songs, led by the 5th Dimension’s “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “Sweet Blindness” in 1968 (then “Wedding Bell Blues” in ’69 and “Blowin' Away” in ’70). Over two consecutive weeks in October 1969, Blood, Sweat & Tears entered the Hot 100 with “And When I Die,” and Three Dog Night followed with “Eli's Coming.” In 1970-71, Barbra Streisand charted three consecutive times with Laura Nyro songs, “Stoney End,” “Time And Love” and “Flim Flam Man.” Nyro's evocative vocal style mixed jazz and rhythm-and-blues with street pop, gospel, and Broadway, and her three-octave range has led her voice to be characterized as both "a blues soprano" and "a rich, charcoal-smudged alto." In 1996, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After the diagnosis, Columbia Records prepared a double-disc CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. The company involved Nyro herself, who selected the tracks and approved the final project. She lived to see the release of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997), and was reportedly pleased with the outcome. Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, at 49, the age at which the same disease had claimed the life of her mother. Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, and Melissa Manchester. Todd Rundgren stated that, once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura". On April 14th, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday. Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops! *Canteen Mission Statement* Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

 

More Than a New Discovery	Eli Thirteenth Confession
Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 1	Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 2
New York Tendaberry	Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat-(Remastered)
Gonna Take A Miracle Ft. Patti LaBelle	Smile-(Remastered)
Season Of Light	Mothers Spiritual
Live at The Bottom Line	Walk The Dog & Light The Light
Angel in the Dark	The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 1
> The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 2
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[bd476]

Ruby & The Romantics ~ Our Day Will Come

Thank you, Kathy! I was thinking of this song last night and
had planned on requesting it today. LOL!

Today I thought of a bunch of songs some folks might want to hear
but wasn't sure whether it is better to post them all at once or to
post one request at a time, and over a longer period of time.
Some of them may have already been on the playlist.
Here's one of my favorites:

Telstar by The Tornados

[mylife]

Nice

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Pressed Rat And Warthog (from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

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Deserted Cities Of The Heart (from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

Deserted Cities of the Heart (Filmore East 1968)
~ Cream ~

Deserted Cities of the Heart (Chelsea, London 7-18-98)
~ Jack Bruce, Gary Moore, Gary Husband ~

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[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
TANK U!
;0)

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Welcome to The Canteen, and thank you so much for your kind words!
Good night and God Bless!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, bd.

Feel free to FReepmail any of us. If one doesn’t have the request they check with the others. More often than not one of us has it. d:o)

Lovely posies.

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Those Were the Days (from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique, for the Troops support.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

The Tornados ~ Telestar

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Train time...when does your very own train come through?

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Crossroads (BBC 1968)
~ Cream ~

Crossroads (Filmore West 1968 from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

Crossroads (The Secret Policeman's Concert 1981)
~ Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck ~

Crossroads (Saitama Super Arena 2009)
~ Eric Clapton ~

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That coal train’s done gone up the valley and I’m not far behind - just more behind than usual for a Saturday night, lol.

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White Room (from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

White Room (Filmore West 1968)
~ Cream ~

White Room (Royal Albert Hall 1968 - Farewell Show)
~ Cream ~

White Room (Live)
~ Jeff Healey Band ~

White Room
~ Eric Clapton & Sheryl Crow ~

White Room (Albert Hall)
~ Mark Knopfler & Eric Clapton featuring Robert Cray ~

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Cream's final album was appropriately tittled Goodbye. It contained only three studio tracks, one from each band member and the balance of the album was filled out with live cuts. "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" was Jack Bruce's contribution.

Doing That Scrapyard Thing (From Goodbye)
~ Cream ~

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Written by Ginger Baker.

What a Bringdown (From Goodbye)
~ Cream ~

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Sitting On Top Of The World (from Wheels of Fire)
~ Cream ~

Sitting on Top of the World (From Goodbye)
~ Cream ~

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"Badge" was written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison. Harrison plays the guitar part on the bridge behind Clapton's solo and because of contractural issues he was credited as "L'Angelo Misterioso".



Badge (From Goodbye)
~ Cream ~

Badge
~ Jeff Healey Band ~

Badge (2002)
~ Eric Clapton ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique, for the Troops support.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

Tymes ~ So Much In Love

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[mylife]

You do love the sea.

I kinda gravitate to the mountains, but am enamored with the sea

[Kathy in Alaska]

Is it close to you or can you hear it because it is at night and more quiet?

Sometimes I can hear a train where I live and the train tracks are quite a ways away...several miles at least.